Basilic :: Basilic (n.) Basilica.

Basilic :: Basilic (a.) Alt. of Basilica.

Basilic/ :: Basilic/ (pl. ) of Basilic.

Basilica :: Basilica (n.) Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose..

Basilica :: Basilica (n.) A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached..

Basilica :: Basilica (n.) A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction..

Basilica :: Basilica (n.) A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century..

Basilical :: Basilical (a.) Royal; kingly; also, basilican..

Basilical :: Basilical (a.) Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm..

Basilican :: Basilican (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical..

Basilicas :: Basilicas (pl. ) of Basilic.

Basilicok :: Basilicok (n.) The basilisk.

Basilicon :: Basilicon (n.) An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance..

Basiling :: Basiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Basi.

Basilisk :: Basilisk (n.) A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice..

Basilisk :: Basilisk (n.) A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae..

Basilisk :: Basilisk (n.) A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size..

Bisilicate :: Bisilicate (n.) A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.

Borosilicate :: Borosilicate (n.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc..

Calcareo-siliceous :: Calcareo-siliceous (a.) Consisting of, or containing calcareous and siliceous earths..

Consilience :: Consilience (n.) Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.

Dissilience :: Dissilience (n.) Alt. of Dissilienc.

Dissiliency :: Dissiliency (n.) The act of leaping or starting asunder.

Dissilient :: Dissilient (a.) Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp..

Dissilition :: Dissilition (n.) The act of bursting or springing apart.

Ekasilicon :: Ekasilicon (n.) The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekabor..

Exsiliency :: Exsiliency (n.) A leaping out.

Fissilingual :: Fissilingual (a.) Having the tongue forked.

Fissilinguia :: Fissilinguia (n. pl.) A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards..

Fissility :: Fissility (n.) Quality of being fissile.

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